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Ryan, Ulrika; Chronaki, Anna – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2020
This paper discusses the place of precision in mathematics education by exploring its role in curricular guidelines and in classroom life. By means of a joke on precision delivered by a school student in South Sweden, our study focuses on student participation in mathematical tasks that require precision in processes of measuring and reasoning.…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Student Participation
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Seedhouse, Paul – Classroom Discourse, 2019
Seedhouse (2004) suggested that L2 classroom interaction can be understood in terms of sub-varieties or L2 classroom contexts. These are the 'interfaces' between pedagogy and interaction in which a particular pedagogical focus combines with a particular organisation of the interaction. However, Conversation Analysis does not see such organisations…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Classroom Communication, Teaching Methods
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Otten, Samuel; Engledowl, Christopher; Spain, Vickie – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
Univocal discourse, characterized by its function of conveying information from one person to another, is common in mathematics classrooms but dialogic teaching aims at students coming to participate in dialogic discourse, that is, discourse functioning to generate new meaning within a community. Many mathematical practices are directed at the…
Descriptors: Dialogs (Language), Discourse Analysis, Secondary School Mathematics, Accuracy